📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
Have you ever wanted to know what kind of things an alp farmer does and how ecological dairy cattle farming works? Its all about maintaining the typical alpine cultural landscape, by retransforming overgrown areas into grazing areas for lots of different species, with typical plants and animals. You will be clearing small bushes in grazing areas and then stacking them in piles or laying them out as shelter for reptiles. Besides this, you will be collecting gravel which will be scattered following avalanches. You will also be trimming bushes and small trees, as well as uprooting them with your hands, in a nearby moor. It is possible that you could help out with maintenance work on the mountain pasture, for example by getting involved with the building of a fence around the mountain pasture, or by helping out with the hay harvest on the organic farm.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be staying in an Alpine hut in a valley of the Chiemgau mountains, with kitchen/living room on the ground floor and mattresses on the first floor. There is a toilet, a shower and fresh (cold) water as well as a woodstove for cooking and heating things up. An electricity connection is also available. Bundesstrasse is 50m away (at nights virtually empty). It is also possible to freshen up in a cold mountain stream at the edge of the mountain pasture. You ll cook your own meals together.
📍 About the location
You have ideal conditions for living among nature and for hiking in the Chiemgau mountains. There is also a cable car going up the nearby Rauschberg mountain (1.645m). The Lodensee lake (6km away) and Ruhpolding (4.5km away) are reachable on foot or by the bus, which runs every hour during the day. In Ruhpolding there are opportunities to go shopping, swimming and there is also the train station there. In the evenings you can sit around a campfire and enjoy the stars. At the weekend you could travel to the Chiemsee lake, Salzburg or Munchen by bus or by train. The alp farmers will help you with buying food for the camp and transporting it back to the mountain pasture.
ℹ️ Additional information
This camp is kindly supported by Johnson Controls. The work will sometimes be physically demanding